Copy-holder for type-writers and the like.



No. 886,457. PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

W. L. WOOD. GOPY HOLDER FOR TYPE WRITERS AND THE- LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1907.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1907.

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COPY-HOLDER FOR TYPE-WRITERS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Application filed March 22, 1907. Serial No. 363,808.

To all whom ttmay concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. Woon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Co y-Holders for Type- WVriters and the Like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The present invention relates to copy holders for typewriters and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a copy holder of this character which will support the copy in a convenient position near the machineand will be so mounted as to receive little or no vibration from the machine when the same is operated to provide a copy holder which can be readily detached from its support and folded into a small compass to permit the same to be placed in a drawer'or other convenient place when not in use; to provide an improved copy supporting frame which can be readily adjusted, which will not be liable to become disarranged in use and which will not be liable to vibrate; and further, to provide the copy supporting frame with a holding bar which will receive the copy at any point throughout its entire length and permit the copy to be moved beneath the same without liability of pinching and tearing.

IVith these objects in view my invention consists of certain novel features of construc tion and organization to be hereinafter described, and then more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved copy holder; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the supporting lugs carried by the base; Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the copy supporting frame; Figs. 5 and 6 are fractional detail views of the copy supporting frame; and Fi 7 is a fractional view of a slightly modified form of the copy supporting frame.

In these drawings I have illustrated the preferred form of my invention, which comprises a suitable base or support for the copy holder and which, in the present instance, consists of a base 1 separate from the supporting table or desk and adapted to extend beneath the machine and to support the copy holder in a convenient position above the same, the weight of the machine serving to retain the base firmly in position, and, as the base is mounted upon the table or desk which supports the typewriter, it is held against movement by the machine and receives a minimum amount of vibration therefrom. In the present form, the base consists of a frame composed of side members 2, united at their rear ends by a transverse member 3 and forming a base of a size sufficient to support the typewriter. The copy holding frame is supported above this base in any suitable manner and preferably consists of two members 4 and 5, the member 4 being rigidly connected to the base and provided with a slot 6 and having mounted thereon in alinement with said slot a bolt 7 adapted to enter a corresponding slot 16 formed in the member 5, and provided on the end extending beyond the member 5 with a thumb nut 8, by means of which the two members are clamped in their adjusted position. To prevent the member 5 from turning about the pivotal center formed by the bolt 7 I provide that member with a lug 9 mounted near the lower edge thereof and adapted to extend through the slot 6 and form a guide for the frame member 5. This lug is preferably T-shaped, as shown, and is inserted in the slot by turning the frame at right angles to its normal position and then returning the same to its normal position after the lug has been inserted in the slot. This connection forms a positive guide and a firm non-vibratory connection between the two members of the frame. The member 4 of the frame has its lower end turned at substantially right angles to the body thereof, as shown at 10, and slightly curved to form a supporting rack for short forms of the copy.

The lower edge ofthe frame is connected at its opposite ends to suitable brackets or supporting arms 11, which, in turn, are connected with the base 1. I prefer to connect the member 4 with the arms 11 by means of a bar 12 which is rigidly secured to the lower portion of the frame above the rack 10 and extends some distance beyond the ends of said frame where it is pivotally connected to the arms 11. I have shown in Fig. 7 a modified form of this frame, in which the lower portion thereof is made of material of sufiicient strength to support the frame and is extended beyond the ends of the frame, as shown at 18, where it is directly connected to the arms 11. The arms 11 extend outwardly and then downwardly, the downwardly extending portion being inclined inwardly, as shown at 14, and are provided at their lower ends with suitable means for detachably connecting the same to the base 1. The supporting bracket formed by the arms 11 and the bar 12 has its greatest width near the upper portion thereof and this width is equal. to or greater than the distance between the extreme limits of travel of the paper carriage, thus allowing the carriage to move throughout its length of travel without .the paper being crumpled or broken. The inclined portions 14 of the arms serve as guides to engage the edge of the paper as the carriage moves towards the arms and elevate the same to the wider portion of the frame, thus preventing the paper from catching and being crumpled. The arms 11 may be secured to the base in any suitable manner, but I prefer to provide the base with suitable vertical lugs 15 which are detachably secured thereto and provided at their upper ends with notches 16 cooperating with similar notches 17 in the lower ends of the arms 11. These notches are each of a width equal to the thickness of the opposed member so that the two arms may be interlocked to form a continuous arm which can only be separated by a direct longitudinal pull. The lugs 15 may be secured to the base 1 in any suitable manner, but I prefer to provide the base on its opposite sides and near the rear thereof with suitable recesses or cut-away portions 18, above each of which is secured a plate 19 having a plurality of downwardly extending ears or apertured lugs 20 which extend into the recesses 18 and have their apertures arranged in alinement to form a socket adapted to receive the bent over end 21 of the lug 15, which is preferably bent at right angles to the body portion of the lug, and, when inserted in the socket formed by the apertured ears 20, serves to hold the lug rigidly in a vertical position.

The upper member 5 of the copy supporting frame is provided with a suitable copy holding bar 22 which is so mounted upon the frame as to permit the copy to be inserted beneath the same and freely moved at any point throughout its entire length without liability to pinching. This I accom lish by providing the bar 22 of light, flexib e material, such as a thin strip of metal, and secur ing the same at its opposite ends to the upper ends of the downwardly extending spring arms 23 which are rigidly secured to the side members of the frame at a point some distance below the bar, thus allowing the bar to move as a whole to and from the frame member and eliminating the acute angles which are formed when the bar is secured directly to the frame and which are very liable to pinch and tear the copy when the same is moved beneath the bar. Thus it will be seen that I have provided a copy holder adapted to be secured to a support extending beneath the machine, and, where a separate base is employed, to be held by the weight of the machine in firm engagement with the supporting table, thus reducing the amount of vibration transmitted from the machine to the copy holder to a minimum; further that I have provided a copy holder which is rigidly supported from this base, which can be readily dismounted therefrom by separating the arms 11 from the lugs 15 and folded into a very small compass by folding the arms 11 upon the copy sup orting frame, the members of which are s idably connected so that the parts can be slid together to occupy a very small space, the copy holding framebeing constructed in such a manner as to be readily adjustable, but to be held rigidly in its adjusted position and to be but little liable to vibration; and further, that I have provided this copy supporting frame with a copy holding bar which is capable-of receiving the copy beneath the same at any point throughout its length and of permitting the same to be moved thereunder without liability to pinching and tearing.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A copy holder for a typewriter comprising a base adapted to extend beneath the machine, and a copy supporting frame provided with arms adapted to detachably secure the same to saidbase and to fold uponsaid frame.

2. A copy holderfor a typewriter comprising a base adapted to extend beneath the machine, brackets detachably mounted on the opposite sides of said base, and a copy supporting frame pivotally connected to the upper ends of said brackets.

3. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame, arms pivotally connected to said frame and adapted to fold upon the same, and means for detachably connecting said arms to said base.

4. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, and lugs secured thereto, of a copy supporting frame, arms pivotally connected to said frame, and means for detachably connecting said arms to said lugs.

5. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, and lugs secured thereto and having notches in the upper ends thereof, of a copy supporting frame, arms pivotally connected to said frame and having notches in the lower ends thereof adapted to cooperate with the notches in said lugs and ermit the adjacent ends of said arms and sald lugs to be interlocked.

6. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base having recesses formed therein, apertured lugs extending into said recesses and forming sockets, and a pair of lugs each having a part turned at an angle thereto and adapted to enter one of said sockets, of a copy supporting frame, arms pivotally connected to said frame, and means for detachably connecting said arms to said lugs.

7. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame, outwardly and downwardly extending arms pivotally connected to the opposite ends of said frame, and means for detachably connecting said arms to said base.

8. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy-supporting frame, and arms connected at their upper ends to said frame, extending outwardly therefrom, thence converging downwardly and connected at their lower ends to said base.

9. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame, outwardly curved arms pivotally connected at one end to said frame and detachably connected at the opposite end to said base.

10. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame, outwardly extending arms pivotally connected at one end to said frame and detachably connected at the op posite end to said base, each of said arms having an upwardly and outwardly inclined portion.

11. In a copy holder of the character de scribed, the-combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame, a supporting bracket for said frame detachably connected to said base and having its greatest width adjacent to said frame and provided with inclined guides leading to said portion of greatest width.

12. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame comprising a member detachably connected to said base and provided with a vertically extending slot and a bolt, a second member slidably mounted upon said first-mentioned member and provided with a verticallv extending slot adapted to receive said bolt, a thumb nut for said bolt, and a lug carried by said second member and extending through the slot in the first-mentioned member.

13. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame comprising a member detachably secured to said base and provided with a vertically extending slot and a coupling member, a second member slidably mounted on said firstmentioned member and having a vertically extending slot adapted to receive said coupling member, and a T- shaped lug secured to the lower edge of said second member and extending through the slot in said first-mentioned member.

14. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with' a base, of a copy supporting frame comprising a member connected to said base and provided with a vertically extending slot, and a second member slidably mounted on said first-mentioned member and having a vertically extending slot, a coupling member carried by one of said members and adapted to engage the vertical slot in the other of said members, and a lug carried by said last-mentioned member and adapted to engage the slot in the member carrying the coupling member.

15. In a copy holder of the character described, the combination, with a base, and a' copy supporting frame carried thereby, of a light, flexible copy holding bar, and means for loosely connecting the ends of said bar to said frame, whereby said bar is free to move as a whole toward and away from said frame.

16. In a copy holder of the character described, the cornbination, with a base, of a copy supporting frame having laterally projecting portions near the lower edge thereof, arms pivotally connected to said laterally projecting portions, and means for connecting said arms to said base.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM L. WOOD.

WVitnesses:

E. O. HAGAN, EDWARD T. REED. 

